Orgel v. McCurdy’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
9 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 1970 · most notably 12 Ill. 2d 231 - People Ex Rel. Terry v. Fisher (1957), Jeppesen v. Swanson (1955)
9 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 13 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Palmer v. Hoffman · Engl v. Ætna Life Ins. · Hoffman v. Palmer · Mackerer v. New York Cent. R. · Parts Mfg. Corp. v. Weinberg
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the motion is granted because the testimony plaintiff seeks may be generally relevant to the issues in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jeppesen v. Swanson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.